Hive vs Hike - What's the difference?
hive | hike |
A structure for housing a swarm of honeybees.
The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
* Tennyson
(computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.
* 2006 , Jean Andrews, Fixing Windows XP (page 352)
* 2011 , Samuel Phung, Professional Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0
(entomology) To enter or possess a hive.
To form a hive-like entity.
To collect into a hive.
To store in a hive or similarly.
* Byron
To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.
A long walk.
An abrupt increase.
(American football) The snap of the ball to start a play.
A command to a dog sled team, given by a musher
To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise.
To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.
(American football) To snap the ball to start a play.
(nautical) To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
To pull up or tug upwards sharply.
As nouns the difference between hive and hike
is that hive is (label) winter while hike is a long walk.As a verb hike is
to take a long walk for pleasure or exercise.hive
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Dryden)
- (Shakespeare)
- a wretched hive of scum and villainy
- the hive of Roman liars
- Windows builds the registry from the five registry hives
- For devices built with hive-based registry implementation, the registry data are broken into three different hives — the boot hive, system hive, and user hive.
Derived terms
* beehive * hivemind * mother-hive * superhive * hive fiveSee also
* apiaryVerb
(hiv)- to hive a swarm of bees
- Hiving wisdom with each studious year.
- (Alexander Pope)
Derived terms
* hive off English collective nounshike
English
Noun
(en noun)- The tenants were not happy with the rent hike .
Verb
(hik)- Don't forget to bring the map when we go hiking tomorrow.
- She hiked her skirt up.